Ideas for the improvement of software tools
These ideas derived from my experience from the daily work.
WWW-Browser: Page information should cover page size
It would be an exremely helpful feature to have an information
in the total size of a page. This information should be
provided in the page information dialog and ideally should
list the single components with their sizes and summing up
everthing. An option should be to switch on/off the calculation
of the total sum for the different types of media (e.g. 'total
size without flash')
Why is this helpful?
Web-page designers have to consider the sizes of pages in order
to guarantee download times for defined bandwiths. Analysing other pages
or the ones I have developed myself helps me to optimize for this usability
issue.
I haven't found this feature in Galeon 1.2.5 or Mozilla 1.0.0.
WWW-Browser: Allow external editors, preferable embedded
Today we face quite a lot of Forms to fill on the Web. Many of
them also asking for multiline text.
The built-in editors of common browsers simply suck if you know
how to use a real text editor.
Browsers shoould allow to launch an external editor for any multiline
entry (e.g. some context sensitive right-mouse menu item).
It would be even better to embed external editors right into the Browser.
This would support the concept of task-oriented components.
Editors must support this of course.
I haven't found this feature in Galeon 1.2.5 or Mozilla 1.0.0.
Bugtracker: Don't break thread
Bug-Trackers (I have this experience from the Bugzilla as used for
KDE) should not break the thread, ie. a comment on a bug submitted to
the bug tracker should maintain the Message-Id correctly.
It is really aweful to have the emails unrelated in a folder concerning
the same bug. Of course you can try to build clever filter rules, but
that is a work around.
Obviously this could be solved through making the bugtracker send a copy
of the initial message to himself and pull out the message id to
be used for any later posting.
2006/01/23
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